4/1/24 7:10PM EDT Tigers @ Mets

[Tigeraholic1]

Citi Field - Flushing, NY 

Game Time Forecast: Cloudy 61

Listen: 97.1 The Ticket

Watch: Bally Sports Detroit

Starting Pitchers:

RHP Reese Olson

LHP Sean Manaea

[1776]

Starting the season with a legitimate rotation is going to take some getting used to but it sure is a nice change from years past. Through four starts the Tigers will still have Casey Mize for game five.  
Of the 16 home games in April, 11 of them will start in the one o’clock hour.  

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

Should be able to get today's game in, but tomorrow and Wed look dicey. Maybe they should just go ahead and play a DH today...

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

Should be able to get today's game in, but tomorrow and Wed look dicey. Maybe they should just go ahead and play a DH today...

Or schedule only day games for early April? Common sense doesn't sell tickets, I guess. They have to try and soak fans while kids are still in school and it ends up losing them money.

[mtutiger]

2 hours ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

Should be able to get today's game in, but tomorrow and Wed look dicey. Maybe they should just go ahead and play a DH today...

Could be a situation where they take the mutual off-day Thursday to play a DH, though that would suck for the Tigers right before the home-opener.

[oblong]

27 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Or schedule only day games for early April? Common sense doesn't sell tickets, I guess. They have to try and soak fans while kids are still in school and it ends up losing them money.

In some markets I suppose TV overrides the attending fans. NY and LA appears to be the only games starting after 7 today and tomorrow and Wednesday.  

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Or schedule only day games for early April? Common sense doesn't sell tickets, I guess. They have to try and soak fans while kids are still in school and it ends up losing them money.

Not sure how that would help this situation. Once it starts raining Tues morning, it's not supposed to stop through Wed night.

[Toddwert]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

In some markets I suppose TV overrides the attending fans. NY and LA appears to be the only games starting after 7 today and tomorrow and Wednesday.  

I would think the Mets would know the home market and how to make the most money

[casimir]

23 minutes ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

Not sure how that would help this situation. Once it starts raining Tues morning, it's not supposed to stop through Wed night.

Just think of all the May flowers.

[1776]

1 minute ago, casimir said:

Just think of all the May flowers.

A glass ‘half full’ perspective…commendable.

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

10 minutes ago, casimir said:

Just think of all the May flowers.

No one goes to NYC to see flowers.

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

In some markets I suppose TV overrides the attending fans. NY and LA appears to be the only games starting after 7 today and tomorrow and Wednesday.  

LA...I can see. East coast teams? Not so much. It seems like this is a problem at the start of every season...money over-rides common sense.

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

Not sure how that would help this situation. Once it starts raining Tues morning, it's not supposed to stop through Wed night.

They could possibly wait out a delay for a day game. A few hours. But a night game? It's too late in the day to wait out a delay of over 2 hours 

[casimir]

1 hour ago, 1776 said:

A glass ‘half full’ perspective…commendable.

I'm a ray of sunshine amongst the rain clouds.  Its what I do.

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

In some markets I suppose TV overrides the attending fans. NY and LA appears to be the only games starting after 7 today and tomorrow and Wednesday.  

When it comes to Yankees and Dodgers, TV not just locally, but nationally. Same goes for the Cubs, who have basically more night games in April than just about anybody but the Yankees and Dodgers.

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

No one goes to NYC to see flowers.

Or ships from Massachusetts

[Tigeraholic1]

[IdahoBert]

It’s a shame the Tigers aren’t playing in Kansas City tonight. There’s a tornado warning for KC until 11 PM central time. Worrying about a tornado would be a nice change of pace.

[Sports_Freak]

Weather looks OK to play tonight.

[Tigermojo]

Someone slide hard into McNeil please.

[Sports_Freak]

Shea Stadium....airplanes right overhead. What a sh**hole.

[Dtrain72]

Olson toying with not being ready for prime time...get it together kid

Edited April 1, 2024 by Dtrain72

[Dtrain72]

Wow, big time needed that...hope he got it out of his system.

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

finally I have time to watch a game live. so of course they'll probably lose this one. sorry in advance.

[Dtrain72]

Manaea looks filthy...dude is dealin'